Quik Note: Monitoring and debugging

• ps -eafw display running processes and resources that they use
• ps -e -o pid,args --forest display PIDs and process as a tree
  
• pstree display process tree
  
• kill -TERM 98989 complete correctly the process with PID 98989
  
• kill -1 98989 make the process with PID 98989 reread configuration file
• lsof -p 98989 display files opened by process with PID 98989
  
• lsof /home/user1 display opened file from home user1 directory
  
• strace -c ls >/dev/null display syscalls list that take and gave ls
  
• strace -f -e open ls >/dev/null display library's syscalls
  
• watch -n1 'cat /proc/interrupts' display interrupts in real time
  
• last reboot display system reboot history
  
• last user1 display login's history user1
  
• lsmod display loaded kernel mdule
  
• free -m dysplay RAM state in mb
  
• smartctl -A /dev/hda control hard drive /dev/hda with SMART
• smartctl -i /dev/hda check SMART accessibility on hard drive /dev/hda
• tail /var/log/dmesg print 10 last write from kernel load log
  
• tail /var/log/messages print last 10 write from system log